pelted by bottles, rocks, and paint. before last night s clash, protesters had occupied that plaza outside city hall for more than two week. again, the protesters are saying around 6:00 pacific time, they are going back and they say they re not looking for a confrontation but they want to stand strong. we ll have more on them. and oakland is not the only place where police are cracking down on these protesters. atlanta police also moved in late last night to clear protesters from a park. they had occupied for more than two weeks as well. more than 50 people arrested there overnight. let s bring in salon.com reporter justin elliott who has been covering the protests. justin, we ve got two major cities, and there may be a dust-up in san francisco as well where police have been told to move in and clear out some of these protesters. what do you make of this stage in the game here? reporter: the images we saw coming out of oakland last night were fairly shocking and i think gen
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has already poured $500,000 of his own money into the race. this new ad is definitely not from huey s campaign but from a group called turn right usa. the guy who made it, ladd ellinger jr. has been behind other classic ads like dale peterson s ad when he ran for agricultural commissioner, and the one that portrayed nancy pelosi as the wicked witch of the west. this new ad, which we re only showing you part of, well, we ll just warn you there s a lot of offensive languages and images ahead. in an insane effort to reduce gang violence, janice hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be gang intervention specialists. she even helped them get out of jail so they could rape and kill again. got to work with janice.
own money into the race. this new ad is definitely not from huey s campaign but from a group called turn right usa. the guy who made it, ladd ellinger jr. has been behind other classic ads like dale peterson s ad when he ran for agricultural commissioner, and the one that portrayed nancy pelosi as the wicked witch of the west. this new ad, which we re only showing you part of, well, we ll just warn you there s a lot of offensive languages and images ahead. in an insane effort to reduce gang violence, janice hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be gang intervention specialists. she even helped them get out of jail so they could rape and kill again. got to work it again. i started working with janice hahn. i started working with janice
her opponent craig huey doesn t even live in the district but has already poured $5,000 of his own money into the race. this new ad is definitely not from huey s campaign but from a group called turn right usa. the guy who made it, ladd ellinger jr. has been behind other classic ads like dale peterson s ad when he ran for agricultural commissioner, and the one that portrayed nancy pelosi as the wicked witch of the west. this new ad, which we re only showing you part of, well, we ll just warn you there s a lot of offensive languages and images ahead. in an insane effort to reduce gang violence, janice hahn hired hard-core gang members with taxpayer money to be gang intervention specialists. she even helped them get out of jail so they could rape and kill again.